Political Cross Dressing Watch
Webb continued to lead with virtually all of Virginia's 2.3 million ballots counted by Wednesday evening, but Allen's team clung to the hope that glitches or math errors might uncover new GOP votes.
"Let the process play itself out in a dignified manner," said Ed Gillespie, a former national Republican Party chairman, speaking for the Allen campaign in front of the Virginia party headquarters. "The votes need to be accurately counted. Only at the end of that process is a winner declared."
Ed Gillespie
Press Conference
November 8, 2006
"There's this notion that we should open this up and have judges or lawyers try and interpret the will of the people . . . instead of just counting the ballots. This is not a numbers game. Elections
where you count the ballots and the numbers add up and the person with more votes wins . . . We believe the results, when all is said and done, are going to affirm the results from Tuesday night's election."
Ed Gillespie
MSNBC Interview
November 9, 2000
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